Birmingham City owner Carson Yeung leaves the court in Hong Kong on Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Birmingham City president Carson Yeung's £59m money-laundering trial has been delayed until Spring 2013.

A Hong Kong court has agreed to postpone the trial to allow for Yeung's defence team to gather further evidence.

District court judge Douglas Yau agreed to defer the trial date to April 29 next year following a request by Yeung's lawyer for more time to gather more evidence and better prepare their defence.

He said that Yeung had been "living in a state of limbo".

"The prosecution's allegation is simply the fact that he was a hairdresser and now he has so much money," Joseph Tse, a member of Yeung's defence team, told the district court packed with reporters in the southern Chinese city.